chess
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How to Spot a Potential Chess Cheat, if the ‘Anal Beads’ Saga Has Taken Your Fancy
A few years ago, the chess website Chess.com temporarily banned U.S. grandmaster Hans Niemann for playing chess moves online that the site suspected had been suggested to him by a computer program. It had reportedly previously banned his mentor Maxim Dlugy. And at the Sinquefield Cup earlier this month, world champion Magnus Carlsen resigned without…
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What’s With the Gender Imbalance in Competitive Chess?
As Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit highlights, chess has long been a male-dominated game. But why is there such a gender imbalance?
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Today I Discovered That Medieval Chess Had A Lot More Characters
King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Castle/Rook, these pieces all make sense in an ancient game of strategy, right? And then there’s the whole row of pieces that are just… pawns. Yawn. As it turns out, they haven’t always been so homogeneous – in one version of the game they all had their own titles and backstory.
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There’s A Sport Where You Play Chess And Then Punch Someone In The Face
Forget the World Chess Championship: we’re here to talk about Chessboxing.